The Maid Shopping
Camille Pissarro
1888
Medium
Drypoint in black on ivory laid China paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.5 × 13.2 cm (7 11/16 × 5 1/4 in.); Plate: 20 × 13.8 cm (7 7/8 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 35.7 × 23.7 cm (14 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80879
About the Artist
Camille Pissarro · 1831–1903
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) stands as the patriarch of Impressionism, the only artist to exhibit in all eight Impressionist exhibitions and a mentor whose influence shaped the trajectory of modern art. Born Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas to a Jewish-Portuguese merchant family, he abandoned the family business to pursue painting, eventually settling in Paris i...